The enemy is aiming at the masses of the resistance

Ali Haider-

The political, military and intelligence leadership of the enemy could not “swallow” the thunderous slap it received from the Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, so it studied its counter options in order to contain the repercussions of the frustration that Nasrallah carried out in the domestic Lebanese and Israeli arenas.

As a result of the failure of the political and media institutions, and the undermining of the credibility of the enemy Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the task was entrusted to the occupation army, which took about 70 hours to crystallize and publish a video that exposed the background and the compensatory goals. Nevertheless, the army’s move appeared closer to an implicit admission of the invalidity of what Netanyahu had propagated.

But it also seemed that the army’s attempt failed to correct the picture that took place in the wake of Sayyed Nasrallah’s response, which came less than an hour after Netanyahu announced an alleged Hezbollah missile depot in the Jnah area (the southern suburb of Beirut), and Hezbollah did not need more than an hour. To implement it. It can be assumed that the army’s move came as a result of pressure exerted by the political leadership, and therefore it was lackluster and limited in influence.

If the inference is correct, then it is an additional indication of Hezbollah’s victory in the battle of consciousness, and the deepening of the moral, political and media defeat that the enemy suffered in this round of open and continuous conflict, which has not and will not miss any means or opportunity to target the awareness and feelings of the public of the resistance.

The slap that the enemy entity received with all its political, security and media institutions, was the success of Hezbollah in thwarting the goals of the propaganda campaign for which the enemy’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recruited and used the United Nations platform, and also at the center of the equation that the latter tried to establish after he appeared to promote false information about the existence of a store. Hizbullah missiles threaten the residents of the Jnah area.

The enemy’s insistence on continuing the media battle stems from the fact that what Netanyahu announced was not just a stance on a global occasion that should be exploited, but rather a translation of a broader plan pursued by the enemy’s entity against Hezbollah, specifically in the face of its specific military and missile capabilities.

According to the Israeli newspaper “Maariv”, “What Israel is doing, whether by Netanyahu or the Israeli army – is part of the propaganda campaign that aims to distort the image of Hezbollah and present it as endangering the lives of civilians in Lebanon because it stores explosive materials under it.” Densely populated residential neighborhoods ».

As for the background to resorting to this option, and its position on the enemy’s general strategy in confronting Hezbollah, the newspaper added, “This type of action is being carried out by Israel because it realizes that the offensive operations may lead to an escalation in the region.”

From here, it becomes clear that the propaganda campaign carried out by “Israel”, and in concert with local, regional and international forces, is among several tracks that seek to incite the Lebanese people in general, and the resistance crowd in particular, against Hezbollah, in the hope that this will contribute to undermining its popular base and exacerbate Pressures on him in order to force him to make concessions that are compatible with the priorities and interests of the enemy entity.

Based on the foregoing, it becomes understood that what happened was not the first time that the enemy attempted to implement such a scheme. Netanyahu and the United Nations also announced similar matters previously, and the Israeli army had previously announced alleged maps in the same direction. Based on the same logic and wager, this path will continue in later stages.

All these steps fall within the framework of what is known as the “battle of consciousness”, which has become an essential part of “Israel” strategy against its enemies.

According to a study issued by the National Security Research Institute in Tel Aviv, “The army’s strategy, published in 2018, sought to produce an“ ability to influence awareness ”among its enemies and the popular and political forces to influence their positions and options.

To this end, I have developed tools for broad and focused influence. ” The study notes that the “battle of consciousness” occupies a basic space as “an independent effort that accompanies and complements various other efforts,” offensive, defensive and logistical, as stipulated in the army’s strategy. But it is also striking that the clause related to the “battle of consciousness” was included in the “chapter on the use of force” (in the strategy of the occupation army) along with the multi-dimensional maneuver and fire, and it also had its place in relation to soft capabilities at the level of (war) information, awareness and legitimacy. And the law.

Regarding the direct objectives of this strategy (the battle of consciousness), the study (the National Security Research Institute) determined that its aim is to change the perceptions of Israel’s enemies by addressing selected audiences, whether it is a local audience or the international community, in the hope that this will contribute to changing the attitudes and behavior of the target audience. Against the enemy (Hezbollah) who is being incited. The activities that fall within the framework of this battle vary between totally secret activities and those that are absolutely overt, and the activities between them in which the secret and the open overlap.

Nevertheless, the “battle of consciousness” waged by the enemy entity, and with it all the international, regional and local forces against Hezbollah, remains an exceptional peculiarity.

In conventional cases, this type of battle constitutes a catalyst and complement to the military effort, as noted above.

However, in the context of the confrontation with Hezbollah, it rose with regard to the enemy to becoming a parallel option to the military confrontation.

At this stage, it also rose to be an alternative option, due to the success of the deterrence force that Hezbollah had established in the face of Israeli aggressive options over more than 14 years (since the 2006 war),

In providing a protection umbrella for Lebanon and the resistance, in order to build and develop its deterrent and defense capabilities.

On the other hand, it seemed that the enemy studied its alternative and counter options, and concluded by conceding the reality of its narrow choices. This prompted him to adopt a set of alternative options, one of the main tracks of which is the “battle of consciousness” that targets the resistance crowd.

With an overall assessment of the rounds witnessed in this arena, it is clear that Hezbollah has achieved a victory represented in thwarting the enemy’s endeavors and stakes in the resistance of the resistance’s masses, in which this audience demonstrated its awareness of the reality of the position and role of the resistance in its present and future, as it had a decisive role in facing the imminent threats. Lebanon and the region.